Dream Healer with Ghost Beads

It have been more than a few times I've been called, "The Dream Healer"

I started making Ghost Bead necklaces around 1987 I think, 

Maybe it was 1988.

I read about them while trying to calm my 2 year old each night from night terrors. 

One vivid one I remember was she was dreaming that I was covered in worms, they were going in my eyes and out, in my mouth and out my ears.

When she was screaming in the middle of the night I did what any parent would do and I ran to her and scooped her up and tried to comfort her, the next day is when the brousing came out on my eye - she had punched me with all her little might to get away from the worms.

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Years later, I was making this same kind of necklace for my grandchildren.

Today I make trendy jewelry with ghost beads, but keeping with tradition I bless the beads provided by Mother Nature and smodge with sweetgrass and sage.

Here is a sample and others can be found at

MadeByGrandmasHands.etsy.com

Smudging

~00~ Grandma

To all the homeschoolers and teachers out there, after "Math" Coronavirus Pandemic

Teachers!

Everyone should have a new level of gratitude for all'y'll.

I know I do.

I'm a stay at home Grandmother, not nearly retired but old enough to. I have my adult daughter moved back home after a nasty break-up with her husband, and she works full time that means one thing! I don't have time for proper grammar or punctuation - the monsters in my house will be awake soon.  I have to hurry.

I shouldn't complain right? I mean there are grandmothers out there that don't have any grandchildren..... Come and get mine.

I never thought for a second that being a grandmother a stay at home grandmother during a pandemic would inflict this amount of (no words).

I know people are dying threw this pandemic and I should be grateful that I:

I have grandchildren around me

My business has no business

My couch is worn out

My husband has a memory problem

I gained 18 pounds

I'm potty training one kid

I'm trying to get another one to stay away from tv

And the oldest, what can i say she has her own phone

3, holly fuck I didn't sign up for this

I raised my children

I'm not a teacher

I swear way too much to have kids around me full time

I drink, yup I have a hang over right now.

By the way, this is the first time I've had a hangover, now i know what it is.

Seriously!

I need this pandemic to come to an end.

I have a new respect for teachers, I think I said that already, maybe I'm not hungover but still drunk from last night!

Yes I worry! I was teaching the kids how to fart the day before yesterday. Not exactly, but you know what I mean? They just let wind fly like it is something they are proud of. So I taught them how to fart, without anyone hearing and they don't even need to use their manners when you fart without anyone hearing you, what could be better than not having to excuse yourself?

I have a need to bead.

Yes, I just changed the subject.

Holly fuck here comes one now.

Quick, sit still, close your eyes, don't move.

Rory: Grandma!
Rory: Grandma, I'm awake now, moms gone to werk.
Rory: Grandma, are you sweeping? Y'r ewes are crowesed, 

Rory: I'm 5, did you know that grandma?
Grandma: Yes, I knew that....
Rory: Ha ha ha I twikted you I'm 6

Hazel: I dont talk, give me everything I want or I'l hold you at my highest screaming pitch possible.
Grandma: Grandpa can I drink and wear ear plugs and watch kids?

Ana: my dear sweet Ana, some day when you are all grown up and married I'm still going to be alive and I"m going to move in with you. I'm going to leave my clothes all over the floor, eat in bed, leave my dishes in my room, talk to my friends on my phone all day, tell you I don't like meat or what you are cooking, suggest that some restaurants are still open at this hour, stamp my feet and drag them down the hall, tell you "I can't clean my room it's too much work" I'll ask for a treat in front of your kids so I have them all yelling, I'll fart when the feeling is there, I'm going to lean back on your dining room chairs, and yell at your kids.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Did I mention I have the need to bead but I don't have time?
This is the last thing I made, made with ghost beads, Ghost Beads are a Navajo tradition to bead with for protection.  This is a custom order that I made for a little stinker.

Before I go, I'd like to leave you with this

Do you like my glasses? I said to the youngest grandchild in my view,
Grandchild: " no"
Me: why not?
Grandchild: "bracuze ver scawy"
Me: "I'll take them off then, they don't work anyway"

I need for this to be over soon - we all need our lives to be less stressful.

April 20/20 dedication to the families, friends, teachers and first responders who lost their lives in a senseless mass shooting in Nova Scotia (22 death count)

~00~ Grandma (aka Cindy) or Crafting - madebygrandmashands.etsy.com